First Birth – Flesh
Second Birth – Spirit
No profit in it – John 6:63
- It is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
No good in it – Romans 7:18
- For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
Cannot please God with it – Romans 8:8
- Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
For all are guilty – Romans 5:12
- Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: